Which drive should I put my SSD in?

I'm going to put an SSD in my laptop, and I was wondering if I should put it in the hard drive bay or the optical drive bay.

If I put it in the hard drive bay, I'd put the HDD in the optical, and get an external OD case.

From what I understand, the hard drave bay is SATA3, and the optical drive is SATA2, and from what I understand, SATA3>SATA2, so I should then get a SATA3 SSD and put it in the hard drive bay, and put the HDD in the optical drive.

the laptop is a sony vaio CA and the SSD is this one: Newegg.com - Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CW120G3K5 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Is my reasoning for the most part sound?

 

Yes

Put the SSD into the hard drive bay, install OS on SSD and any other programs

Put the HDD in the optical bay and use it as a storage drive

This is the setup I have, SSD in hard drive bay, HDD in optical drive.

You also will need a Optical disk drive caddy to put the HDD in the optical drive. I would probably start at newmodeus or search around the forums to find a cheaper alternative.

I also purchased a ODD from newmodeus that cost me around 50 dollars, but I did get to put a 1tb hard drive in though.

 

What I'm going to get:

Amazon.com: White USB2.0 Slim DVD / CD RW Burner External Enclosure Caddy Case with SATA Connetor For Laptop Notebook burner [ Case only!! Drive is not included !!]: Electronics

Amazon.com: 12.7mm Universal SATA TO SATA 2ND Hard Drive Caddy for HP 2230s 8730w NC6000 NC8000 NW8000 NX5000: Electronics

Amazon.com: Intel 320 Series 120 GB SATA 3.0 Gb-s 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive: Electronics

Good stuff right? All going into this Sony VAIO CA:


Intel® Core™ i5-2540M processor (2.60GHz) with Turbo Boost up to 3.30GHz
Genuine Windows® 7 Professional 64-bit
14" LED backlit display (1600 x 900)
AMD Radeon™ HD 6630M (1GB VRAM) hybrid graphics with Intel® Wireless Display technology
640GB (5400rpm) hard drive
4GB (4GBx1) DDR3-SDRAM-1333
CD/DVD player / burner
Standard lithium-ion battery (5300mAh)

Should I get the 640@5400rpm or the 500@7200pm, since I have an SSD, I wouldn't need as fast of an HDD. Plus it would save battery

 

Your logic is mostly sound but the Intel 320 is SATA2.

I would recommend an Intel 510 series SSD.

Also, while logic indicates that the HDD bay is where you should put your SSD in, don't let that stop you from testing which port location is actually faster in real use (I've seen a post that said the optical drive location was faster...). And, they should both be SATA3 ports anyways... - if the notebook is wired properly (no reason it shouldn't be).

Finally, when you have confirmed that one port or the other is preferrable for you SSD - then I would highly recommend using the following link to install your users folder to the HDD:

See:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...gramdata-folder-separate-drive-partition.html


Also, get the fastest HDD you can: what is the point of an SSD when you cripple it with slow (circa 2007/2008...) storage medium?

Good luck.